Executive actions: here’s what Biden should do on the day of inauguration

Executive actions: here’s what Biden should do on the day of inauguration

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The first day’s actions include imposing a mask mandate on federal property and installing a coronavirus response coordinator to oversee Biden’s White House efforts to distribute vaccines and medical supplies.

Biden also plans to reverse several of Trump’s attempts to withdraw from international agreements, returning to the Paris climate agreement and preventing the United States from leaving the World Health Organization – where Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s leading infectious disease specialist , will lead the US Delegation.

And it will undo some of Trump’s harshest immigration crackdowns, ending the travel ban in some Muslim-majority countries and suspending funding for the border wall.

Biden will sign executive orders and memos in the Oval Office on Wednesday afternoon, his new press secretary, Jen Psaki, told reporters. Psaki and other senior Biden officials said the first day’s actions are only part of what will be a series of actions to undo Trump’s policies and implement Biden’s campaign promises in his first weeks in office.

Here’s a look at the 17 actions Biden will take on his first day in office:

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